3+ hour, 3+ min ago  (600+ words) Four people died on Thursday off the coast of northern France as they tried to board a small boat to cross the Channel to England, taking the number of such deaths this year to six. The two men and two…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (525+ words) Cabinet okays law for FY25 supplementary, FY26 main budgets The government on Tuesday directed all the ministries and agencies to launch a coordinated special drive to prevent rape of and violence against women, declaring the issue a top priority. The directive came…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (243+ words) The British government announced Tuesday that it would stop issuing education visas to nationals from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan and work visas for Afghans as part of its broader clampdown on asylum seekers. The Home Office said there had…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (333+ words) The United Kingdom's overhaul of its asylum programme takes effect on Monday, the Home Office announced, with the new rules drastically cutting protections for refugees and their children. More than 1, 10, 000 people, many fleeing conflict, claimed asylum in the UK in…...

3+ mon, 2+ day ago  (408+ words) Europe's top rights court on Tuesday said it had asked the UK to supply more information about the highly publicised case of young woman Shamima Begum who was stripped of her British citizenship after going to Syria to marry an…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (595+ words) The second-highest annual number of migrants arrived on UK shores in small boats since records were started in 2018, government statistics confirmed on Thursday. The tally comes as Brexit firebrand Nigel Farage's anti-immigration party Reform UK surges in popularity ahead of…...